PARITY WANTED
JAPANESE DEMAND
EFFECT IN PACIFIC
(Received December 11, 1.30 p.m.)
LONDON, December 10.
The Naval Conference was immediately brought to grips as a result of Japan's advocacy of a common upper limit. Japan's hint that she was not prepared to discuss either quantitative or qualitative limitation until the principle of parity was conceded may mean shelving the question until some less contentious points are settled.
French opposition to the Japanese standpoint has already developed, the opinion being expressed that parity is impracticable because of the different strategic requirements of the naval Powers.
All the Dominions unite with Britain in opposing Japanese (equality. Mr. S. M. Bruce and Sir James Parr especially support the British delegation, because of the situation it would produce in the Pacific.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 141, 11 December 1935, Page 12
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